social class

American  

noun

Sociology.

1. a broad group in society having common economic, cultural, or political status.

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Example Sentences

At the time, Iranians across social classes and political divides, inside and outside the country, united under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

From The Wall Street Journal

In a departure from an older generation of private clubs, Core prized accomplishment, ambition and talent over inherited social class.

From The Wall Street Journal

Not that Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff’s doomed-by-their-own-hands love affair ever needed the exposure; Brontë’s themes of obsession, revenge, social class and the supernatural are still analyzed in high school English classes.

From Los Angeles Times

Her aim was to "redress the social injustice linked to social class at birth", she said in her Nobel lecture in 2022.

From BBC

A superb dramatist of social class, morality and love, Mr. Gurnah is a contemporary heir to George Eliot.

From The Wall Street Journal